Book description
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it
Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's…
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1 author picked Ten Cities that Made an Empire as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As an unwitting child of the British Empire, I have, as the modern phrase goes, some lived experience of it.
Much that is written about it has its basis in ideology: empire was glorious; or colonialism is the devil’s work. This book uses ten cities of Empire to search out its on-the-ground history. It is marvelously absorbing and free of cliche, jingoism, or bias. It is fluently written and led me to see these iconic cities in a new light.
From John's list on British history beyond cliche, ideology, and spin.
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